נָכֵא
nâkêʼ · H5218 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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broken, crushed
Literally: a broken spirit; hence: a state in which someone's inner person has been deeply affected by grief, the impact of which is compared an object that has been crushed into small pieces
ExamplesProverbs 15:13 A joyful heart makes a cheerful face, But when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken.
Proverbs 17:22 A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a person can endure his sickness, But as for a broken spirit, who can endure it?
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Grieve002001002013
- The word describes a person who is broken, stricken, or crushed in spirit, most notably in the phrase describing one who saves those crushed in spirit (Psalm 34:18), tying the word to inner anguish and brokenness rather than physical injury alone.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5218. nake ' [נָכָא] adjective stricken; — masculine plural נְכָאִים Isa 16:7 (Köii. 1,…
' [נָכָא] adjective stricken; — masculine plural נְכָאִים Isa 16:7 (Köii. 1, 73), of Moab prostrated by conquest.
[נָכֵא] adjective id., always feminine נְכֵאָה רוּחַ a stricken spirit, Pro 15:13; Pro 17:22 (both opposed to שָׁמֵךְַ לֵב), Pro 18:14.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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